Caledon River
The Caledon River is a major river located in central South Africa. Its total length is 642 km, rising in the Drakensberg Mountains on the Lesotho border, flowing southwestward and then westward before joining the Orange River near Bethulie in the southern Free State.
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- …lies at an elevation of 1,264 metres (4,147 feet)
- Description: river in Lesotho and South Africa
- Also known as“Mechachaneng”“Mohokare River”“Wilhelminarivier”
Caledon River
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Latitude
-30.51667° or 30° 31′ south
Longitude
26.08333° or 26° 5′ east
Open location code
4GX8F3MM+88
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Caledon River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Caledonrivier”
- Afrikaans: “Wilhelminarivier”
- Arabic: “نهر كاليدون”
- Asturian: “Ríu Caledon”
- Belarusian: “Каледон”
- Catalan: “Mohokare”
- Catalan: “Riu Caledon”
- Cebuano: “Mohokare”
- Chinese: “卡利登河”
- Croatian: “Caledon”
- Danish: “Caledonfloden”
- Dutch: “Caledonrivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كاليدون”
- French: “Caledon”
- Fulah: “Maayo Kaledon”
- Georgian: “კალედონი”
- German: “Caledon”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Caledon River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mohokare River”
- Hausa: “Kogin Caledon”
- Hebrew: “קלדון”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Caledon”
- Irish: “Abhainn Caledon”
- Italian: “Caledon”
- Japanese: “カレドン川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Uruzi rwa Caledon”
- Lithuanian: “Kaledonas”
- Northern Frisian: “Caledon Struum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caledon”
- Ossetian: “Каледон”
- Persian: “رود کالدون”
- Persian: “رودخانه کالیدون”
- Polish: “Caledon”
- Portuguese: “Rio Caledon”
- Russian: “Каледон”
- Somali: “Webiga Caledon”
- South Azerbaijani: “کالیدون چایی”
- Southern Sotho: “Noka ya Mohakare”
- Spanish: “Rio Caledon”
- Spanish: “Río Caledon”
- Swahili: “Mto Caledon”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Caledon”
- Ukrainian: “Вільгельміна (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Каледон”
- Ukrainian: “Могокарі”
- Venetian: “Fiume Caledon”
- Welsh: “Afon Caledon”
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